Any OG diehards not as interested as you were?

RageQuitLord said:
I'm a bay area thrasher for life. Fuck Seattle in 1990!
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Definitely lost a lot of interest... Still went to UFC 262 last year with my son (22)... He's VERY into it. Broadband isn't an option where I live so anything on ESPN+ is a total miss for me. I've got access but the final product isn't watchable. I miss the old day of fights on FX, Spike, FS1, etc.... The cost is part of it, too. We'd have watch parties, but none of those guys are watching anymore, either. It's just too expensive to pay for a card just to watch by yourself.

Now I don't even know a fraction of the guys on the cards. It's just not holding my excitement like it used to.

For me it's mostly about access... I think that the move to ESPN knocked a lot of hardcores out of viewership.

I've been here since '07... does that qualify me as an OG?
 
I find myself not as interested anymore. I blame it on the fact the "stars" aren't stars because of their fighting ability or their fights anymore. They're instead "stars" because of the wolf tickets they can sell to gillible fans and talking shit on social media. It's the whole WWE atmosphere that's infiltrated MMA.
Too many people even on forums like this seem to care more about what fighters say on social media than they do about watching the fights.

I don't hate on Connor for it but he started the trend and it's not even about what he did so much as it is the pay scale. Connor simply realized he wasn't going to be paid just for his fighting ability or how exciting his fights were.
 
OrigFan255 said:
Maybe it is the never ending CoVID thing.
Maybe it is PPV now being $74.99
Maybe it is the endless bickering everywhere
OR
Maybe I am just getting old (43)

I just recognize the passion has dropped a notch
Does anyone agree and if so, what do you think is the reason?
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I'd be worried that my dick can still get hard at that age............................................................................

there is still hope for the hype trains

khamzat
mongol guy
paddy
ngannou/gane going to entertain for years
izzy
jiri

a lot of strikers in that bunch <{JustBleed}>
 
egk said:
I find myself not as interested anymore. I blame it on the fact the "stars" aren't stars because of their fighting ability or their fights anymore. They're instead "stars" because of the wolf tickets they can sell to gillible fans and talking shit on social media. It's the whole WWE atmosphere that's infiltrated MMA.
Too many people even on forums like this seem to care more about what fighters say on social media than they do about watching the fights.

I don't hate on Connor for it but he started the trend and it's not even about what he did so much as it is the pay scale. Connor simply realized he wasn't going to be paid just for his fighting ability or how exciting his fights were.
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Yeah. But I think a lot goes into it. A lot of the guys that I loved from the early-mid 2000's are old and gone. I'm married, I have a family, I have a career. Different things are important now compared to when I was in High School/College.
 
I got into it in 2010 when I was 8 and all my favorite fighters are from that era or before. I still follow closely, especially when Volk, Yan, TJ, Du Plessis, and now when Tuivasa fights.
 
Not as exciting as it once was. As far as the PPV costs go, there are too many lame fights watering down the card. WMMA is the biggest source of this. Then you have fights like Stricklands last one. Thank God it was a freebee. Too much of a production in general. Watered down product. I dont follow as closely as I once did.
 
its just not as fun as it used to be.

i used to get excited about upcoming events, now i forget that they are on.
 
I’m gonna add to my post in here. TheUFC used to have to sell us something, meaning we wanted to buy it. Rivalry, 1 vs 2, controversy; something. Now they don’t get paid based on that, they get guaranteed money as long as they’re putting cards on. and It shows, clearly shows.
 
TitoDome said:
I’m gonna add to my post in here. TheUFC used to have to sell us something, meaning we wanted to buy it. Rivalry, 1 vs 2, controversy; something. Now they don’t get paid based on that, they get guaranteed money as long as they’re putting cards on. and It shows, clearly shows.
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Yeah, the "brains" at ESPN weren't as smart as they thought they were.
 
Prutfis said:
I miss Pride. Just got so much more exited, especially for GPs.. These days I don´t even bother downloading events for free.
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Yeah, the GPs really managed to be incredibly exciting, and included, for the most part, a very impressive roster of fighters. 15 years later, MMA no longer has a yearly tournament with the best fighters in the world from a specific weight class competing.

Man...Pride was something. Even those freakshow matches, they had entertainment value, although they were mostly irrelevant. The 10-minute round really improved the finish rate as well. It was a lot of fun to have two premier MMA leagues actively putting on events for us to enjoy, with somewhat different formulas too. Don't get me wrong, it's a good thing that the rules of MMA were unified, but the presentation in Pride brought a different mood completely to the sport. It felt grand, somewhat clinical with all that white and that mostly silent crowd, and the moments of violence that those rules allowed to bring to our eyes were incredible.
 
I still watch every card. But i'm also definitely not as feverishly committed as I once was at my peak fandom. But yeah seeing as I still watch every card can't really say i'm one foot out the door or anything.
 
Yeah, a little bit. My interest comes in waves, usually when there's exciting prospects on the rise. It needs some new faces, styles, and matchups to make it a bit more interesting

I've enjoyed watching Olivera, Gaethje, Poirier, and Chandler lately. Yair and Max caught my attention, not a fan of Volk. WW feels stale, LHW is aight (Jiri is fun), but HW is a dumpster fire outside of the top 3. FLW is a coin flip decision fest, BW is stalled out. WMMA is basically just Rose, Schev, Nunes, and now Pena.
 
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